Adventure

Sound DNA

• Punk
• Punk Rock

• angular
• driving
• urban

About

New York City’s Television shall be remembered for their 1977 guitar-heroic debut, <i>Marquee Moon</i>, which proved to be a defining moment in rock ’n’ roll history. Yet on 1978’s relatively ignored <i>Adventure</i>, the tunes themselves are better constructed, the songwriting’s more concise and evolved, and the harmonies and melodies are more fleshed-out (listen to the vocal and organ parts on the beautiful “Carried Away”). A narcissistic head-turner (“Glory”) and an anthem to indifference (“Ain’t That Nothing”) sport uptempo pop hooks and choruses and are, for many fans, the band’s finest moments. “Foxhole” (“Goodbye arms/So long, head”) stings as much as anything on the grittier debut album, while droning theremin and acid-like guitar give “The Fire” an entirely spooky feel, unlike anything else Television had recorded. The album’s guitar counterpoints (Television’s stock-in-trade) between frontman Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd are as beautifully curlicue here as ever, if not more restrained than on the debut (save for the head-spinning guitar arrangement of “Days”).

via Apple Music

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